The Colorado Health Foundation: Advancing Advocacy and Justice with Communities of Color

Deadline: 10/15/2021

Amount: $50,000–$200,000

Website: https://coloradohealth.org/funding-opportunities/funding-opportunity-advancing-advocacy-and-justice-communities-color

Description:

aims to build power in the advocacy ecosystem with organizations that are most critical and closest to the communities for whom health is furthest from reach. It will support both long-term movement-building and the ability of advocacy groups to act when high-leverage opportunities to bring about change arise. The Foundation hopes to shift and elevate power and further strengthen a nimble, adaptive, diverse and durable advocacy ecosystem.

This funding opportunity will support:

  1. A continuum of advocacy efforts focusing on health equity for Arab/Middle Eastern, Asian/Pacific Islander, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latinx, Indigenous/Native American, multiracial communities and groups that engage in intersectional work with communities of color (e.g. focusing on Indigenous women, Black LGBTQ+, immigrants and refugees);
  2. Long-term movement-building strategies that make decision-makers accountable to communities and strengthen their power to influence policy;
  3. Efforts for racial and economic justice, which will ultimately support health equity for people of color across the state.

Eligible applicants:

Organizations should be led by and/or centered on Arab/Middle Eastern, Asian/Pacific Islander, Black/African American, Indigenous/ Native American, Hispanic/Latinx and multiracial communities and work to build the power of Coloradans of color to shape public policy decisions that impact health.